Dr. Darryl Ragland Named as Purdue Veterinary Medicine Extension Director

New Purdue Veterinary Medicine Extension Director Darryl Ragland, DVM, PhD
New Purdue Veterinary Medicine Extension Director Darryl Ragland, DVM, PhD

Purdue Professor of Food Animal Production Medicine Darryl Ragland has been selected as the director of extension for the College of Veterinary Medicine. In that role, he will oversee the activities of the college’s extension service, which shares practical applications of Purdue research with livestock producers in Indiana and around the world, and enables Hoosier farmers to raise animals using healthy and sustainable livestock production practices.

Dr. Ragland is a longtime College of Veterinary Medicine faculty member, who earned his DVM degree at Tuskegee University before coming to Purdue to complete his residency in food animal medicine. He then continued on to earn his PhD and join the faculty in 1999. In addition to his faculty appointment, Dr. Ragland serves as head of the Production Medicine Section in the Purdue University Veterinary Hospital.

Dr. Ragland splits his time between clinical practice, teaching, and research. His research interests include antimicrobial resistance and alternatives to antimicrobials in swine production; nutrient digestibility and physiology (swine and poultry); swine lameness and locomotor diseases; and swine reproduction and physiology.

Dr. Ragland’s educational responsibilities include teaching swine production medicine and nutrition to veterinary students. He also played a key role in creating a new food animal medicine course for which he is now instructor-of-record, and has been actively involved in animal husbandry courses.

The Purdue Veterinary Medicine Extension team includes specialists in equine, beef, swine, dairy, animal welfare and veterinary toxicology.

Dr. Darryl Ragland is a professor of food animal production medicine and runs the Swine Field Service of the Purdue Farm Animal Hospital
Dr. Darryl Ragland is a professor of food animal production medicine and runs the Swine Field Service of the Purdue Farm Animal Hospital

Writer(s): Kevin Doerr | pvmnews@purdue.edu

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